ALOIS C. DOTTERWEICH 1923-2003

MEYER, DOTTERWEICH, FINN, SWOPE, GRACIANO, FOTHERGILL, FRASIER, KLIETCH

Posted By: Mary Durr (email)
Date: 9/23/2003 at 14:05:22

Alois C. Dotterweich

Telegraph Herald - Friday, Aug. 8, 2003

Alois C. Dotterweich, 80, of Duggan Drive, died Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2003, at Mercy Medical Center-Dubuque.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at St. Joseph the Worker Catholic Church. Burial will be in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Key West, Iowa, where military rites will be accorded by the American Legion, Dubuque Post 6. Friends may call from 3 to 8 p.m. today at Siegert-Didesch Colonial Funeral Home, 390 N. Grandview Ave., where there will be a wake service at 4 p.m.

He was born on Jan. 15, 1923, in St. Meinrad, Ind., son of Erhard and Mary (Meyer) Dotterweich. He married Sabina Finn on April 27, 1957, in Temple Hill; she died on April 28, 1973.

He served in the Army 101st Signal Battalion during World War II, first in the Infantry during the invasion of Okanawa, then as a Military Police Officer in Europe.

He moved to Iowa in the early 1950s to work on a farm. He worked as a journeyman carpenter for 30 years in Dubuque until his retirement. He also worked at the former Dubuque Packing Co.

He was a founding member of the Cascade Sportsman Society. He was a member of the American Legion, Dubuque Post 6, and St. Joseph the Worker Catholic Church.

He was an avid sports fan, especially a fan of the Cleveland Browns and the Indiana Hoosiers.

Surviving are two sons, Tom (Lynn) Dotterweich, of Dubuque, and Tim (Lynn) Dotterweich, of East Dubuque, Ill.; five grandchildren, Hillary, Nick, Amy, Kelly and Brett; five great-grandchildren, Alyssa, Alivia, Chloe, Chryshaun and Juliyana; a brother, Andy (Carlyn) Dotterweich, of Monticello, Iowa; three sisters, Rose Swope, of Kuntztown, Pa., and Lena Dotterweich and Joan Graciano, both of Indianapolis; six sisters-in-law, Marie Finn, Eleanor "Lolly" Finn and Darlene Finn, all of Cascade, Iowa, Helen Dotterweich, of Otter Creek, Iowa, Amy Dotterweich, of Jasper, Ind., and Mabel Fothergill, of Des Moines; and two brothers-in-law, Barney Frasier, of Cascade, and Wilber Klietch, of Monticello.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Erhard and Mary, five brothers, George, Pete, Bill, Mike and Ambrose; and a sister, Sara.

An Alois Dotterweich Memorial Fund has been established.